Dealing with failure is easy.
ALAN PERLISYou’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat’s next-to-last theorem.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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